community liaison for new Integrated Waste Management Facility

To the East Peckham list:
See below invitation and message from Veolia Environmental Services (UK) plc This will be of interest to anyone living in the areas affected by the new facility in any way in the Old Kent Road area or on approaches to it. Please pass the info on to anyone else who might be affected. Further information from Rachel Jay at: Rachel.Jay@veolia.co.uk, 020 7525 2423
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MESSAGE:
Please find attached an invitation to represent your community or group at the community liaison group for the construction phase of the new Integrated Waste Management Facility planned for the former gasworks site on Old Kent Road. The first meeting takes place on Wednesday 30 June 2010, from 6pm to 7.30pm.

If you feel that this would be relevant to your group or community please do join us. If you have any queries, please don't hesitate to contact me.

Kind regards
Rachel Jay
Communications Project Manager
Southwark
Veolia Environmental Services (UK) plc
Manor Place Depot
30-34 Penrose Street
London SE17 3DW
Tel: 020 7525 2423
Rachel.Jay@veolia.co.uk
 

Thurs 24 June Camberwell Beauty

An invitation from the SE5 Forum to
Camberwell Beauty
Thursday 24th June 2010 7pm
Institute of Psychiatry
16 De Crespigny Park, SE5 8AF

FASHION SHOW
DESIGN SHOWCASES
REFRESHMENTS

Come and meet designers and makers from Camberwell's creative industries. Further information from http://www.se5forum.org/business

""The Camberwell Beauty event is the SE5 Forum contribution to the Camberwell Arts Festival and a great way to escape the World Cup. We do hope that we will have a good crowd at this fun event. See attached poster. Best Wishes from Ish Lennox, for SE5 Forum for Camberwell""

23 June The Lane SNT ward panel meeting

To residents in The Lane ward

Safer Neighbourhoods Lane Ward Panel meeting
Wed 23rd June
arrive from 7pm for 7.30pm
McDonalds, Rye Lane

see invitation below from Police Sergeant Mark Hurst
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Dear Residents,
 
The next ward panel meeting for The Lane ward will be held on Wednesday 23rd June 2010 in the upstairs meeting room at McDonalds, Rye Lane, SE15. The meeting starts at 19:30 but you are welcome to arrive from 19:00hrs onwards.

The Lane Ward current policing priorities as set by our local residents through the Ward Panel last time are:
* Youth Engagement
* Supply and Consumption of Drugs
* Anti-Social Behaviour
 
I would like to see as many people there as possible as these meetings really are starting to prove useful for the local residents and police alike. Can I ask to let me know if you will be coming so that I can get an idea of numbers. Please email your reply to Mark.Hurst@met.police.uk
 
Finally, if there are any questions you may have then please feel free to email me or give me a ring on the below number. I look forward to meeting as many of you as possible.  
Kind Regards,
 
Mark Hurst | Police Sergeant 25MD
The Lane Safer Neighbourhoods Team
MetPhone 788323 | Telephone 020 7161 8323 | Mobile 07766 442999
Email Mark.Hurst@met.police.uk
Address Bellenden Road Safer Neighbourhoods Office, Unit 1 Bellenden Road Retail Park,
Bellenden Road, Peckham, SE15 5DR
www.met.police.uk
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You can also contact The Lane Ward through:TheLane.snt@met.police.uk
 

Peckham Space: opening 11-13 June

Peckham Space - a new creative building for new happenings in Peckham Town Square opens weekend of 11-13 June. See latest news below.
For forthcoming events: http://peckhamspace.com/forthcoming/commission-6/public-programme
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Peckham Space Newsletter
Welcome to the fifth Peckham Space e-newsletter. It’s all systems go at Peckham Space right now, as we look toward the launch of the first exhibition in our new venue on 12 June 2010 with a weekend of free events for all.

News: Launch Weekend
To launch our new venue, Peckham Space announces a weekend of free events for all from 11 – 13 June 2010 including London’s first mobility scooter meet: Rachael House’s ‘Peckham Peacocks’ on 12 June. Featuring special guests The Red Wheelies mobility scooter formation display team, riders and non-riders are all warmly welcome to this art event. read more http://peckhamspace.com/forthcoming/peckham-peacocks

Events: Public Programme
Artist Ana Laura López de la Torre has made new work in response to working with Harris Academy Peckham for the launching exhibition of Peckham Space. Her new work consists of documentary film work and a series of events working with local organisations throughout the opening exhibition entitled ‘Neighbours’. read more http://peckhamspace.com/forthcoming/commission-6/public-programme

News: Opening Exhibition
Peckham Pledge is an artwork by the art collective FREEE. Presented as a series of four photographic postcards available for the duration of the exhibition, the work invited local shops, The Flower Shop, Persepolis, Scope and The Greyhound, to sign a symbolic gesture towards an imagined future inspired by the visions that poet William Blake experienced on Peckham Rye. read more http://peckhamspace.com/forthcoming/commission-6/freee

Online: New Website
We are pleased to announce that our brand new website is now up and running featuring project, artist and partner information alongside images, video and podcasts from recent projects. If you have an arts venue that you want to add to our local Art Map email us at info@peckhamspace.com. You can also keep up to date with us on Facebook, Twitter, or join our mailing list. read more http://peckhamspace.com/

Tues 8 June - Burgess Park urgent meeting

Please forward this email to anyone with an interest in the future of Burgess Park.
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Message from Burgess Park Action Group:
Burgess Park stakeholders meeting this
Tuesday 8th June 2010 at 6pm
at the Sports Centre in Burgess Park.

Southwark Council plans to destroy large parts of Burgess Park (see draft list below) and use the Aylesbury £4 million to bulldoze the park and replace it with "A purpose built space for some of the largest festivals in Europe with amphitheatre style viewing for over 100 thousand people, a floating stage, and a dedicated cultural hub"
Please could you forward this email to any tenant reps or amenity groups or others that use Burgess Park and that you know would oppose the destruction of the existing park. This is an urgent and important meeting.
Donnachadh McCarthy
pp Burgess Park Action Group
020 7703 8748
07947 884299
3 Acorns Eco-Audits
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DRAFT: List of previous park investments and wild-life sites to be bull-dozed by the latest LDA/Council “masterplan”

1. Landscaping paid for by Groundwork Southwark in front of Library – now mature to be bulldozed.

2. The landscaping and re-tiling and new lighting installed by Groundwork Southwark in Wells Way underpass to be bulldozed. (This is the only safe connection crossing a road that is so busy it carried 50% of the Old Kent Road – essential for parents and very popular with cyclists.)

3. The 20 year old woodland and hill between the lime kiln and library to be flattened.

4. The newly installed Borough’s first LED ultra-efficient park lighting scheme installed on path between Southampton Way and Albany Road to be removed completely.

5. The large and formerly very popular toddler and teenage playground on Wells Way – to be bulldozed and landscaped instead of being repaired, installed by Southwark Council about 15 years ago and which the council had no money to repair even the swings.

6. About 400 meters of the popular cycle and pedestrian Canal Avenue where it passes under the old canal bridge is to be dug up and a pond put in its place, paid for by Groundwork Southwark about 8 years ago.

7. Entire side of the dual line of cherry-blossom trees planted by Groundwork Southwark at same time as laying of Canal Avenue is to be bulldozed for its entire length between the canal over-bridge and Glengall Road on St Georges side of Avenue.

8. The cycle track by the lime kiln is to be bulldozed – part funded by Southwark Cyclists just over two years ago.

9. The woodland, wildlife site and hill at east end of Burgess Park Lake which was planted by Southwark Council rangers service about 15 years ago and now mature to be flattened.

10. A second woodland, wildlife site and hill on other side of closed Calmington Road to be flattened.

11. The wildflower meadow by the Canal Avenue – been colonised by range of wild-plants and flowers for over 10 years and been undergoing meadow management for over 10 years to have the Cycle/BMX track built on it.

12. The mature wildlife woodland sections along St George’s Way which was planted by Groundwork Southwark about 12 years ago and now mature, is to be split up with a complex maze of paths.

13. The landscaping between Lake and Old Kent Road to be bulldozed to allow lake to be seen from the Old Kent Road (disastrously this will allow traffic and pollution from Old Kent Road to be seen from the currently peaceful lake).

14. The entrance at Old Kent Road installed by Southwark Council about 13 years ago to be completely bulldozed rather than revamped.

15. LDA “landscape architects” have been unable to provide a number of mature and semi-mature they intend to kill and remove. Initial guestimates are well over 1,000. Nearly 50 years of planting and growth of trees is threatened in large swathes of the park.

16. In the words of the architects the Canal Avenue mature wildflower meadow will be replaced by “A purpose built space for some of the largest festivals in Europe with amphitheatre style viewing for over 100 thousand people, a floating stage, and a dedicated cultural hub;

17. The wildlife site beside the cricket pitch is to be bulldozed. This is well over 30 years old and is on the site of a garden that predates the park.

18. An area the size of THREE football pitches is to be removed from open space and instead fenced off for polytunnels and allotments.

19. The existing cafe that overlooks the beautiful multi-cultural Chumleigh garden is to be closed and moved inside the building to overlook the Aylesbury Estate and Albany Road. The outdoor tables instead of being placed in a beautiful sheltered Arabic garden with the cafe furniture designed in line with the Arabic heritage of the garden will be on a concrete site exposed to a wind-tunnel funnelled from adjacent buildings.

20. Two sets of paths are to be placed through the existing RSPB maintained special house-sparrow meadows.

21. The 30 year old wildlife woodland and nesting area by the Albany Road side of the lake to be bulldozed.

22. The largest and most mature section of wild woodland along Albany Road at other side of path near lake looks to be bulldozed.

23. Mature shrubbery in front of St George’s Church at junction of New Church Road to be bulldozed –planted by international student workshop 14 years ago.

24. The avenue of mature trees between entrance at corner of Wells Way to the Canal Avenue all look likely to be removed, along with the path installed by Groundwork Southwark about 8 years ago.
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LDA architects and the current council proposals are classic 1960’s style bulldoze and start again disposable landscape school of architecture. The financial, ecological and community investment that is proposed to be destroyed will be painful to the thousands of local people who have watched our park gradually and organically grow from the collection of bombsites and scrap yards that plagued it 20 years ago.

It need not be like this. The existing park is a loved, living and breathing entity in its own right already, with some already beautiful corners already thriving. With careful nurturing and investment, this community led organic growth and investment can continue, so that it continues to provide a green haven and lung for the tens of thousands of people who live within walking distance of the park and the hundreds of thousands of people who play sport, walk or simply picnic in it every year.

An alternative vision to the LDA nightmare would be a national quality Eco-Park designed for the 21st century and based on eco-friendly principles of working and developing the best of what we have already and creating a dream of a zero waste, zero-carbon, green ecological oasis, where people can escape, relax and play, to recharge from the densely built surrounding city – a Hampstead Heath that South Londoners can be proud of.

Burgess Park needs to demonstrate the best of environmental sustainability principles, so that it can act as a beacon of hope in the midst of the threatening environmental crises our children are facing as they grow up. Telling them that the way to treat their own homes and gardens is to bulldoze them every ten to twenty years fails this crucial test of sustainability – the first test of which should always be – is it necessary? LDA’s ecologically disastrous proposals fail this test and are a major crime in wasted carbon terms to boot. Lets show our children instead that there is a different way – one based on community ecology and respect for their future and respect for the wildlife and investments that previous generations have nourished and created.

Thurs 3rd June 6.30pm - Hannah Barry Gallery

See invitation below from the Hannah Barry Gallery. Please note that their next exhibition is also opening tomorrow Thursday 3rd June, at same times as the Son Gallery (see previous email).. So two openings on one evening makes a visit to Copeland Courtyard even more worthwhile. Entrance from 133 Copeland Road - number 9 on the masterplan diagram:
http://www.peckhamvision.org/wiki/Image:Masterplan_-_CCQ.png
http://www.peckhamvision.org/wiki/Copeland_Cultural_Quarter

Also note that the HB Gallery & Frank's Cafe & Campari Bar are coming back to the multi storey car park for the summer from early July. More details later.
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INVITATION FROM HANNAH BARRY GALLERY
Please join us at the gallery in Peckham from 6.30 pm on Thursday of this week (June 3) to celebrate the opening of TOGETHER AFAR, an exhibition of 30 new paintings by Christopher Green. The show will run through July 29 and is open Friday - Sunday 12 - 6 pm.

BOLD TENDENCIES 4, our annual sculpture project on top four floors of the car park at Cerise Road, will open on June 30 and run through September 30. Frank's Cafe and Campari Bar will also re-open for the summer months.

Hannah Barry Gallery
Unit 9i, Copeland Industrial Park
133 Copeland Road
London SE15 3SN

110 New Bond Street
London W1S 1EB

Tel: +44 7850 639 570
www.hannahbarry.com

Copeland Cultural Quarter - Son Gallery exhibition opening 3 June 6.30pm - 9pm

The latest creative enterprise to take root in the Copeland Cultural Quarter (CCQ) is the Son Gallery, located in the same building as the now well known Hannah Barry Gallery. You enter CCQ from 133 Copeland Road, between Bournemouth Rd and the railway tunnel on Consort Rd. The gallery entrance is in the Bussey Passage, off Copeland Courtyard: see note 4 on the plan of the CCQ at http://www.peckhamvision.org/wiki/Image:Masterplan_-_CCQ.png

The next exhibition opens with a private view on Thurs 3rd June from 6.30pm. All welcome.

From The Son Gallery Press Release: "the gallery seeks to promote the dissemination and appreciation of photography inspired work – pushing this into ever challenging contexts. Son Gallery has a commitment to integrating innovative social documentary work into a calendar of fine art orientated exhibitions."

For more information:
http://www.songallery.co.uk
info@songallery.co.uk
07735 459 614
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PRESS RELEASE

Son Gallery present DAN HALTER
Shifting the Goalposts: 4 June - 4 July 2010

Private view Thursday 3 June 6.30pm – 9pm
Son Gallery, Unit 9c, 133 Copeland Road, SE15 3SN

Son Gallery is proud to present an exhibition of new prints by Zimbabwean born artist Dan Halter who now lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa.

‘Shifting the Goalposts’ is a project based around the Beitbridge border between Zimbabwe and South Africa, a location notorious for illegal immigration. Those coming into South Africa are often met with harsh and xenophobic conditions upon arrival.

In the dozen images that will be displayed, Halter switched a set of goalposts from a football pitch in the deprived Musina South Africa for a set of goalposts from another pitch in Beitbridge Zimbabwe, subtly politicising both pitches which now each have local and foreign goalposts. The photographic series depicts a dirt football pitch in the Musina township similar to those where the majority of South Africans play the game.

In the run up to this years World Cup in particular, this dusty reality sits in stark contrast to the current slick and costly mega-stadiums that have recently been built by the government in South Africa’s major cities.

The phrase ‘Shifting the goalposts’ describes the questionable political manoeuvres carried out by the Zanu-PF in the Zimbabwean government to cling onto power. It also applies to the South African government's attempts to bring an end to the Zimbabwean crisis. Furthermore, it serves to illustrate the tendency towards corruption, and neglect of promises made by both governments. Will South Africa end up like Zimbabwe? Frequently the Zimbabwean immigrants find on reaching South Africa
that the goalposts have shifted, often to their detriment.

The prints will be accompanied by Halter’s video piece ‘Space Invader’. Imitating the 8-bit Space Invader character designed by Tomohiro Nishikado in 1978, Halter uses the Chinese made plastic mesh bags which have become synonymous with refugees across the word as pixels to create Space Invader installations. This particular video piece shows an installation at a Johannesburg taxi rank, a port of entry for many African immigrants.

For more information contact
Nicola Jeffs nicola@songallery.co.uk /
info@songallery.co.uk / 07794 694 754
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Notes to editors
Son Gallery would like to thank the What If The World Gallery in Cape Town and the Goethe Institute for their support in creating this exhibition.

DAN HALTER
Dan Halter was born in Harare, Zimbabwe in 1977. He relocated to South Africa and graduated in 2001 from the Michaelis School of fine Art at the University of Cape Town with a BA (FA). Previous solo-shows were at the João Ferreira Gallery in Cape Town titled Take Me to Your Leader (2006) and another called never say never that took place at the Derbylius Gallery in Milan (2008). He has been part of numerous group shows including Second to None at the South African National Gallery, Zeitgenössiche Fotokunst aus Sud Afrika at the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (NBK) and
VideoBrasil in SãoPaulo.

In 2008 he was shown at the 3rd Guangzhou Triennial in China, and he was nominated as one of the MTN new contemporaries. That same year he took part in two residencies, one in Zurich and one in Rio de Janeiro. In 2009 he represented Zimbabwe at the 10th Havana Biennale. He teaches part time Videography at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT. He will show work at Dakart 2010. After his exhibition at Son Gallery he has been selected for the Glenfiddich residency programme in Scotland.

SON GALLERY
Son Gallery is a photography-led exhibition space in Peckham, South London, which opened its doors in early 2010. After a flurry of opening exhibitions the gallery has earned an excellent reception and is now settled into a longer series of exhibitions for its summer programme. Directed by curator Guy Robertson and photographer Tom Saunderson, who also codirect New Exposure, the gallery seeks to promote the dissemination and appreciation of photography inspired work – pushing this into ever challenging contexts. Son Gallery has a commitment to integrating innovative social documentary work into a calendar of fine art orientated exhibitions. For more information visit www.songallery.co.uk